SAM THE SHAM and THE PHARAOHS:

“Let’s not be L-7, come and learn to dance…” 

Music On Monday continues on this first Monday in June with these fine lyrics from the far-out
Sam the Sham + The Paraoahs and their crazy cool hit WOOLY BULLY…

Sam the Sham was known for his camp robe & turban and hauling his equipment in a 1952 Packard hearse with maroon velvet curtains. As the front man for The Pharaohs, he sang on several Top 40 hits in the mid-1960s, notably the Hot 100 runners up “Wooly Bully” and “Li’l Red Riding Hood”.
read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_the_Sham

UNHIP TO BE SQUARE:

• This was the best-selling song of 1965 in the USA despite not making #1.
• This was the first American record to sell a million copies during the British Invasion.
• There aren’t many lyrics in this song that don’t contain the words “Wooly” or “Bully,” but one line managed to capture a fleeting piece of ’60s slang: In the line, “Let’s not be L-7, come and learn to dance,” “L-7” was an unhip person – someone just not with it. More literally, it means let’s not be squares. If you put an L and a 7 together you get, more or less, a square…
• “Sam” was Domingo Samudio. The term “Sham” mean jive talk. His backup group The Pharaohs wore strange Egyptian outfits. They had 5 more Top 40 US hits including the #2 song “Lil Red Riding Hood.”
• Samudio recorded solo for Atlantic Records in 1970, reformed The Pharaohs in 1974 and later became a street preacher in Memphis.

(These cool facts are an excerpt from http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=4366🙂

So, put all your Monday cares aside for a mere 2 mins 36 secs…
and get hip to Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs performing Wooly Bully in 1965

I Love ’60’s album cover art + typography …

 
l y r i c s
WOOLY BULLY
SAM THE SHAM & THE PHARAOHS
(Domingo Samudio)

SO, GET HIP + ENJOY YOUR SUMMER MONDAY with a little MUSIC!

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